An interesting and timely International Conference under the title “Risk Management Leaders in Energy” took place in Istanbul on 15-16 May 2018. The event was organized by the “Institute for Energy and Finance“ (IEF) from Russia, in collaboration with the “Institute of Risk Management“ (IRM) from the UK and its Regional Group in Turkey, with the support of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation.

The meeting devoted to preparing the International Conference "Risk Management Leaders in Energy" (Conference), May 15-16, 2018, Istanbul (Turkey) took place in the Russian Ministry of Energy on April 19 under the leadership of the Deputy Minister of Energy Anatily Yanovsky.

A proposal of Mr. Sulkhan Zumburidze, Chairman of the Management Board / Rehabilitation Manager of JSC "Georgian State Electrosystem" to hold in Istanbul the next regular round of negotiations between the heads of Energy Ministries from the countries-participants of the AGIR format (Armenia-Georgia-Iran-Russia ) with participation of the leading electric power companies from the AGIR member countries was discussed at the meeting.

Following the discussion, the proposal of the Georgian side was supported, and Mr. Yanovsky instructed to work out the issue of holding a meeting in Istanbul with participants in the AGIR format.

Mr. Margheri, Executive Vice President for Institutional Affairs of Edison will make a presentation at the Plenary Session “Risks in the morden world energy and govering them” on May 15. In this capacity, he oversees Edison advocacy towards Italian, European and International Institutions, as well as stakeholders and opinion leaders. The Institutional Affairs Department is also responsible for sustainability policies and corporate social responsibility initiatives. Marco previously held various positions as Head of EU Affairs for Edison and in the Marketing & Sales Department, as Head of New Channel Development. Prior to joining Edison, Marco worked with General Electric Oil & Gas and with Cohn&Wolfe, now a WPP company. Marco is the Chair for Italy of the WEC - World Energy Council (www.wec-italia.org), a Member of the Executive Committee of IAI – Istituto Affari Internazionali (www.iai.it), and a Council member of the ECFR - European Council on Foreign Relations (www.ecfr.eu).